Whole No. 2398. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ONE DOLLAR PER AlNlfl, IV ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. rCf-All NEW subscriptions must be paid in advance, if the paper is continued, and n< t p iid within the first month, 5 will be charg ed : if not paid in three months, $1,50; if not paid in six months, $1,75; and if not paid in nine months. $2,00. All papers addressed to persons out of the county will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for, unless special request is made to the contrary or payment guaranteed by some responsible person here. ADVERTISING. Ten lines of minion, or their equivalent, con stitute a square. Three insertions sl, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. *' SITTAttIVI SCHOOL, ABRAM D. HAWN, McYevtnwn, Principal. Mifilm en. f pins INSTITUTION will open for the |S£ session on the 1. 11 of April, 1857. n will be given in all the branches Mi.ii-illy taught in Academies. Good hoard ing. at reasonable rates, can be procured, and every effort will be made to render the school p] 'asant and profitable. I McVeytown, Feb. 12, 1857.-tf LEAF TOBACCO AND CIGARS. IDENSLOW & CO., 21 South Front Street, Philadelphia, Commission Merchant* AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IX Al.l. KINDS OF STotincco, I AVE constaiilly on hand and for sale low, J_ all kinds of AMERICAN and SPANISH ,l..\F TOBACCOS, selected with special rcf rence to manufacturers' use. All articles sold warranted to be as represen ' ilted and every oppoitunity afforded for exami nation. Purchasers at 3 distance can send their orders, and rely upon being as faithfully served >\if *° ■ds were selected in person. 19 Philadeljihia. Oct 23, I*s6—laplU 1111(11 1t111.1.\1l HUltkS, • I'llE subscriber is prepared to fill orders for all kinds of I?-C1T RAILING ITcr Public 6c Private Parks, Bal conies, Cemetery Lots, Steps, 6cc. ;M Al<o \ erar.dahs. Iron Stairs, Doors, Settees, Ct.ans, Statues, iouulains, and every descrip |o"of > URMIIKXTIL AM) LSEFIL liillN WORK, 'Waving the largest assortment of Patterns, and J *tSie greatest facilities for manufacturing this j kind of woik. j§ Persons can depend on being suited, orders j promptly attended to, and boxed carefully, to J (Carry to any part of the Union. Persons wishing to make selections, by ad- I pressing the subscriber, stating what cla"*s of Work they want, will have Porte Folios of De sign sent them. U . 1\ HOOD, Ridge A venue & Broad St., Philadelphia. ■ October 2, 1856.-Ciuo JOSEPH A. NEEDLES, HANI FACTFRER ifF IVire. Silk & Hair-Cloth Sieves, •Course, medium and fine in iriesh; large, middle -i/.e, and small in diameter. * METALLIC (I.OTHS OR WOVE! WIRE, ;9B> the best qualities, various sizes of mesh, N'os. 1 to ;(j inclusive, and frcui one to Wis feet in width. S They are numbered so many spaces to a Un 4U*I inch, and cut to suit. Mml The subscriber also keeps constantly on hand Igwor Goal, Sand, Ore, Linte, Gram, Gravel, Gu- W'O, Sumac, Sugar, Sak. Bane, •Coffee, Spice, Dyestufi's, Together witki an as sortment of I BRILHT AND ANNEALED IRON WIRE. ,'AU bf the akov/eiold wholesale or retail, by J. A. NEEDLES, nia2t) 54 Front St., Philadelphia. w. L. B. MUSGRAVE & CO., Wholesale Druggists, AND DEAXfclts IN DRUGS, SPICES, OHEMIOii.LS, m ay*3jfas?ifs li gt© ss siu atx up 5 PAINTS, Oils, Glass, &o , IH6 Market t. above llth, S. side, Phlla. |W,I Iruggists and country merchants are Wquested to give them a call and examine JjHfeir stock ami prices, before making their purchases. ma 22 Furs! Furs! Furs! Yictorines, Pelverines, Gloves, &e. jMJ in great variety, from which the ladies C4 make excellent choice, are now open and fur sale at the Business Emporium of Ijjr r; I GEORGE BLYMYKR. ML GT n. HARCY, I THE HUNGARIAN PHYSICIAN, (LATE OF NEW 70RK CITY,) f ERS his professional services to the citi- WKM zens of Eewistown and surrounding coun wfy Office in the diamond, adjoining Hoff ■Rn s Hardware Store. Dr. G. N. H. boards atthe Lewistown Hotel. *iston, Aug. 30,1855—3 m" asjid ffwsaaissiffim) ®is©3e®is ffis'ffSffisjc&aißs, aznzpffess? o®osnre 8 ipx? a 111 i:ists. BY CHARLES LAMB. They oat Their dully Ure.nl. ami draw the lirvutb <n il. Without .t thought *f thanks; Heaven's* root' to tiu-iu. Is blit a painted ceiling liunif with lamp*. No more, that Itaht* them to thoir purposes. Tlicy waiuler loose about ; tlioy nothing *e.\ Themselves except, alu! creatures iiko themselves, Short-lived, short-sighted, Impotent to save. ( So 011 their dissolute spirits, soon or fcit*, Destruction couietli, like an armed man. , Or like a dream of murder In the niulit. Withering their mortal faculties, and breaking The bones of all their pride. LAND OF OCR FATIIFKS. Land of our Fathers! w lieresoe'er we rouin, l.aiol of our birth, to us tliou still art lionie: I'eaee and prosperity on thy sous attetui, Down to posterity tlieir Influence descend. All then inviting, hearts and voices joining, Sins In liurmony our native land. Though other climes may brighter hopes fuliill, l.aml of our birth, we love thee still! lleav'n shield our happy home from each hostile hand. Freedom and plenty ever crown our native land. All then incitini,'. hearts and voices joining, Sins; we in harmony our native land. miiiMHirta. AN AWFUL SITUATION. The Sail Francisco Bulletin of January 21st gives llie following:—Early yester day afternoon, a telegraphic despatch was received by the boatmen at Pacific wharf, from Point Lobos, say ng that one of their comrades had been upset below port Point and was driving uul to sea. The unfor tunate man, supposed to he known as • " Dutch Andrew," was seen from the out er telegraphic station, clinging to, or astraddle on his boat, which was bottom upwards. The news, however, seemed !o have little cfTcct on the Pacific wharf boat men, and no effort was made by them lo rescue their comrade. The praise of ma king an attempt in favor of the unfortn tunate, is due to " Dublin'* and several other boatmen of V allejo street wharf, who started out to the rescue. They were, howevt r, unsuccessful in their philanthrop ic endeavor to find Andrew, and thereupon spoke the steamer (lolden Gate, four miles outside the Heads, and informed Captain W luting of the circumstances, desiring htm to keep a watch for the lost boatman. It is to Ue hoped and expected that the Gulden Gate w ill pick the wrecked man up; as, when last seen, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, he was still clinging lo the boat, six miles southwest of the Heads, in the track usually pursued by the Isthmus steajjaefa. The imagination of our readers may picture the terrible situation of An drew on his upturned boat, driving out wards upon the ocean, and the nigiit com ing 011. Unless he was found, ami is now upon the Golden Gate, he must have already been washed from his frail scat and been swallowed by the waves. A WILD WOMAN. Linden, Marengo county, Ala., is all astir on account of a wild woman that re cently appeared ,1M Uie woods and hills ol that neighborhood to a party of huntsmen. She is a medium sixed woman, fair, and quite naked, with the exception of mocca sins. She runs with great velocity, leap ing 011 ail fours over every impediment like an antelope. The Linden Jeffcrsoni an says: "When discovered bv a party of hunts men, she was concealed among some brush and ran hastily away on tlieir approach. This is, we believe, the fiut instance of a wild person being seen in Alabama, and with the exception of the wild man said to have been seen in the southern part of Arkansas, is the only instance we remem ber to have heard of." Another editor, who was one of a hunt ing party who saw her, says she was ac companied by a large ram of remarkable whiteness, by whose wool she held on when running up hiijs and springing over rocks. This ram appeared very much at tached to this wild and singular crealure and protector. It appears that some fifteen years ago a little girl, daughter of a French woman residing on ffie banks of the Tom bigbee river, was lost, as well as a pet lamb of hers. They were never after heard of, so that many supposed the little girl and her lamb had been drowned. The question now is, cay this wild woman of Marengo county be the same? It is high ly probable, but how she has existed du ring fifteen years in the woods, away from all intercourse with the world, is a mys tery. — Savannah Georgian. ladies, to have good health, should see the sun rise every morning.— Not, however, when returning from a ball, but from their chamber window. Taylsr has gone to Lapland. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1857. A C URIOUS CIRC UMST A N CE. • Some seven years since, says the Elinl ra Advertiser, Whitlington Sayre, a gentle man extensively engaged in the lumber business in that place, and highly respected by a large circle of acquaintances, went on a visit to a couple of sons, near Milwaukie, \Y iseonsin, but shortly after arriving there he was taken ill. died, and was buried in one of til" graveyards of that city. A few weeks since, 011 account of a road go ing to he opened through the ground where his remains were deposited, it was deter mined to disinter them for burial elsew here. On removing the earth from the coffin, (which was considerably decayed,) it was found that Mr. Say re's body was in as good a state of preservation as when in terred. It was taken from the grave and examined by a large number of people.— The general opinion was that the petrifac tion had been occasioned by some action of the soil; but when the remains of oth ers, in adjoining graves, were taken up, they were found to he almost entirely de composed. Every feature of Mr. Say re's face was perfectly preserved, anil the whole body was as hard as the hardest stone. This is a remarkable case, and will give rise to sc.tne speculation among the scientific and curious. DR. RANE'S DOG. The Arctic dog brought home by Dr. Kane has strayed away oil" in Alleghany. He has become the property of James McArthur, timber dealer, in Oramtl. The recently intense cold weather has kept this large, black, shaggy animal in high spirits. When they take him into the forest among the timber hewers, where lie can do no harm, and remove his muzzle, he cuts all sorts of pranks, seeking deep drifts, and burying himself for delight; you can see the dry snow move, but 00 semblance of a dog, till suddenly out he pops, giving his hairy lleeee a tremendous shake, and away lie runs for another dive. Mr. McArthur calls him "Es-ki-mo" (Esquimaux.) not a very smooth name, but characteristic. To look "Esk" fair in the (see, you see almost a likeness of a black bear, though his eyes arc rather languid. His long, soft, shaggy covering is nearly equal in bulk to kis body. When left 10 run at large in the village, he wears a muzzle to prevent his destroying the pigs and chickens. ATMOSPHERIC GAS LIGHT. This is the name given to a new gas light, the basis of which is humid atmos pheric air, the product presenting itself in the form of a clear, white, pure flame, free from smoke and other offensive or un healthful quality. This light is produced by a current of humid air passing through a mixture, the principle ingredient of which is benzoic, a highly carbonized fluid. In stead of using the carburretted hydrogen, prepared by expensive chemical processes, this gas is produced by atmospheric air, which, by a metre passage through the liquid, at ordinary lemperatures, appropri ates to itself, from the benzole mixture, all that is requisite 10 impart lo its flame pe culiar brilliancy, jieuzole is a hydro car bon spirit, of liquid form, obtained by distillation from bituminous coaj ainl other analogous substances. This benzole is mixed with one or two other cheap ingre dients, and a gallon of the hydro carbon is equal to the production of 1000 cubic feet of gas. Hard Case. —Boy with ragged trousers and rimless chip hat, runs into Dr. Fuller's drug store, with a dipper in his hand.— "Doctor, mother sent me down to the shot ticary pop quicker'n blazes, cos bub's ! sick as the dicken3 with the pickcn cliox, and she wants a thimble full of polly gol lie in this din tipper, cos we hadn't bot a goltle and the kint pup's got the bine wa ters in't. Got any?" — are you staring at sir, m:iy I ask?" said an imperialled moustached "blood" to a "Iloosier" on a Mississippi steamboat, who had been watching him as ' a cat watches a mouse, for some fifteen I | minutest. "I thought so," exclaimed the Hoosier, the moment the other spoke; "I said you'd got a mouth, and 1 was only waitirT to be sartain about it to ask you .to "liquor." Stranger, whal'll you drink? or had you rather fight? I dont care j which myself." iteiy*lietter to be upright with poverty thau | wicked with plenty. NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BU CHANAN. About the time Mr. Buchanan returned from his late visit to Washington, we heard whispers of a singular and mysterious na ture in regard to his illness and sudden re turn home. In prosecuting our inquiries, we ascertained that Mr. Humes Porter, of this city, caine home from Washington with Mr. Buchanan, also sick, and was obliged to lake his bed, where he has been ever since. At the same time we were satisfied of the truth of the statements we give below, but as extraordinary efforts were made here as well as at Washington to keep the matter hushed up. we yielded to the soli citations of friends, and withheld the facts in our possession, As they are now com ing out through oilier channels, it is due to j our readers to give ilieni a history of this extraordinary ease of a narrow escape from wholesale poisoning. When Mr. Buchanan went to Washing ton, he put up at the National House, where J. Glancy Jones, John L. Dawson and others were stopping. It appears that this hotel has been terribly infested with rats of late, and one of the boarders—as the story goes—conceived the idea that they ought to be disposed of effectually before the day of inauguration. Accord- , ingly, he procured extra large doses of arsenic, which he disposed of in the most tempting manner about the house. The rats ate the poison. It is well known that when rats partake of arsenic they put <li- j rectly for water. There is a large tank of water in the upper part of the hotel referred to, and into this the host of rats plunged, drank, bursted and died. From this tank the house is supplied with water for drink ing and cooking purposes. Twenty or thirty of the guests were suddenly and some of them severely af fected, from the use of water thus impreg nated with the poison. Mr. Buchanan left suddenly for Wheatland, where he arrived suflering severely from diarrhoea. lie was, however, less severely affected than the others, and in a short time recovered sufficiently lo receive visiters —but the fa tigue incident to entertaining two or three hundred persons, made it absolutely neces sary for him to husband his strength, by relusiug to any but his most intimate personal IrienJs—a rule which was rigidly observed up to the hour of his departure this morning. Mr. Jones, of Berks, was more severely affected, and has been lying in a critical condition ever since—and a doubt about his recovery his appoituKient to a place in the Cabinet an open question up to the present time. Among the others most severely affected was Hon, John L. Dawson, of Fayette. The report, how ever, needs confirmation. Mr. Porter of this city was also severely affected, and though confined to liis room ever since, we believe he is out of danger. Lancas ter Express. The West Branch Insurance Co, OF LOIR HAVEN, PA., INSURES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer chandise, Farm Property, and other Build ings, and their contents, at moderate rates. niRKCTORS. lion. John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, John B. Hall, T. T. Abrams, Charles A. Mayer, D. K. Jack-man, Charles Crist, W. VVi.ite, Peter Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. Thos. Kitchen, Bec'y. REFERENCES. Samuel H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. A. A. YVinegardner, Wm, Yanderbelt, L. A. Mackey, YVm. Fearon, A. White, Dr. J- S. Crawford, James Quiggle, A. Updcgraff, John W. Maynard, James Armstrong, Hon. Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. lligler. 83"Agent for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW ART, Esq. a P I7 Indemnity from Loss ami Damage by Fire, In it the Perils of .Marine and Inland Transportation. CONTIN liNT A L INSORANCE COMPANY. Incorporated btj the Legislature of Pennsylva nia, with a Perpetual Charter. Authorized Capital, $1,1)00,000. Office No. 61 Waliint St. above Second, Pbila. Fire insurance on Buildings, furniture, Mer chandise, &c., generally. Marine Insurance i on Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the world. Inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by Lakes, Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to I all parts of the Union, on the most favorable terms, consistent with security. DIRECTORS. George W. Colladay, William Bowers, John iVI. Coleman, Joseph Oat, Edwin V. Machette, Howard Hinchraan, GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President. - GALEN WILSON, Secretary. rrf= Agent for Mifflin county, Wm. 1 . EL LIOTT, Esq. febW-ly Extract from the Speech of Mr. Jordan, In the Senate of Pennsylvania, on the Bill de fining the duties of the Attorney General. By the present mode of doing business, the condition of the public claims and col lections can never be made known. They are placed in the hands of such Attorneys, in different parts of the Slate, as the Au ditor Geperal and Stale Treasurer may select. These men sometimes ueglect tq bring suit until the sureties become insolvent. In other cases they ! collect the money and neglect to pay it over, and other Attorneys, in some instan ces, have had to collect the money of the Commonwealth from those who had col lected it from the first defaulters. There j being no law requiring returns to be made, ! none are made; and no man in the State knows t)|e actual condition of affairs.— These are some of the ordinary and pal pable evils of the present system: and they , are all greatly aggravated by a change of officers in the Auditor General's or State ! Treasurer's department?. They will be all cut up by the roots by the first section of this hill whenever it beconips a law. Heretofore, neither the Attorney Gener al nor any one employed to act for him, has ever been required to give bond for the faithlul discharge of their tinijes, .or the payment into the Treasury of money collected for the Slate. This, to say the least of it, is gross negligence, and a most dangerous departure from the well settled j policy of the Slate in every other branch j of the public service. Not only sound ; policy, but the commonest instincts of self-preservation, require immediate change in this particular. Our history is full of instances where large sums of money have 1 been collected by irresponsible agents, and been forever lost to the State for want of this salutary requirement. Th.e right of access to the books and papers of the several departments, is an other important feature in this bill. The annual reports of public defaulters as sub mitted to the Legislature by the State Treasurer, as required by law, show large sums of money due the Commonwealth for many years, in some of which, both the principal and sureties, and in others, the sureties only, are perfectly good for the amounts; and yet no collections have been made. Why this has been so, is perhaps foreign to our present purpose; but that the fact is so, will not be denied by any one acquainted with the past his tory of our public dedications. For these evik, th.e present bill also proposes a rem edy. It is made the dutv of the Attorney General to see after the interests of the State in all such cases, and to see that collections are made in every instance where practicable, without respect to per sons. The salary I have fixed at three thou sand dollars per annum. Some think this too low, and others consider it too high. In iny judgment it is little enough, but the Senate may at iis pleasure either increase or diminish it without materially affecting the leading principles of the bill. The duties of the office will be arduous and responsible, requiring the best legal abili ties in the Slate, and these should not be asked or expected without a reasonable compensation. The amount however is less important than the principle which establishes a fixed compensation. Make it what you please, only pass the bill, and it will be the means of great economy and saiing to the Slate. Under the pres ent system, or rather want of system, the annual cost lo the State is enormous, and what is worse yet, the public business of this department not duly done. The pres ent able and accomplished State Treasurer in his annual report, recommends the pas sage of a bill containing the leading prin ciples of this one, and his main reason for it is on the score of economy. He has assured mc that if all the bills presented during the past year, for pro fessional services alleged to have been rendered 'the Commonwealth, had been paid, the amount would not have fallen short of twenty thousand dollars. And this is no extraordinary amount, but rather an ordinary annual occurrence. The j manner in which the Treasury of our good old Commonwealth has heretofore been robbed according to law, can perhaps be best illustrated by giving a few instances ol recent date : It is no doubt pretty well known to the New Series—Vol. 11, No, 19. Si rial*, tint not long since the county of Allegheny and city of Put,burg issued a , large amount of bonds to aid in the con struction of certain railroads. On these bonds the law required a specified tax to be paid to the Commonwealth. A ques j Uo " > vas raised whether this tax should be paid by theYounty of Allegheny and the city of Pittsburg, by the railroad compa nies, or by the holders of the bonds. Now it will he observed that the State had no interest whatever in this question, because it o.ade no difference to her who paid the tax. Hut an action at law was got up about it, in which the Commonwealth was used as a cat's paw, by allowing her name to he placed on the record as a party to i the suit; and the result is, a biil is present ed ol one thousand dollars for professional services rendered the Commonwealth! 1 ake another case: A question was rais ed with a certain bank concerning the am ount owed the State on dividends. The i Commonwealth claimed about three thou sand dollars, and the bank denied that it owed anything. Instead of putting the matter into the hands of the A Home v General, as should have been the law, three other Attorneys were employed to bring suit against the bank. The suit was accordingly brought, and the three thou sand dollars recovered; whereupon the Attorneys nipple out their bills against the State tor two thousand dollars apiece, thus i charging our poor old commonwealth the , nice little sum of six thousand dollars for ; the collection of three thousand. Such, Mr. Speaker, are a few instances of the practical operations of the present law. Others might be given, but 1 trust | these will suffice. To me, I must sav, it is a matter of no little surprise that such a condition of things has been tolerated so long. In mv judgment it is high time for a change; and the sooner it is made the belter it will be for the tax payers of the State. Knowing these evils to exist, I have endeavored to provide a remedy bv the bill now under consideration. I feel confident it will, if passed, bring about a radical and most important change for the better and I hope to secure the vote of every Senator on this floor in favor of the measure. Our public debt is over forty millions of i dollars; and the annual accruing interest is more than two millions. To pay this in terest and other liabilities, and keep up the credit of our State, we tax our citizens se- I verely. We tax their houses and their | lands, their bonds and their mortgages, their money and their stocks, their horses and their cattle; and it seems as if their wives and children barely escape. To enforce the collection of these taxes we have passed the most stringent laws, by which the tax gatherer may sell the last bed from the man and his family, and then put him in jail for any residue not covered by the proceeds of the sale. And yet, by our present miserable system of laws, if j system it can be called, after we have col : lected the funds from the tax payers, we ! permit them to be squandered by the thou sand and tens of thousands annually, and that too, by the most unworthy class of public defaulters who get the taoney of the Slate in their corrupt hands and hold on to it from year to year with impunity, regardless alike of all morals, ali law, and ; the public weal. I call on my fellow Senators to see to it that this condition of ; things be perniiited no longer. luuiluT McVeytown, Pa., keep constantly on hand a large assortment of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, CLOTHING, BOOT* IXO SHOES, HITS AID CAPS, STRAW GOODS, HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE, CEDAR WARE, NY all and Window Papers, STATIONERY, CARPETS, DRUGGETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, LINES, OIL, LEAD, PETTY, TAR, PITCH, 01ßl tl, Salt, Fish, Plaster, Guano, Cement, Stoiie Coal ami Grind Stones. ' We are paying the highest market price for i all kinds of GRAIN; or where parties desire i it we will ship their Grain by canal and pay them nett p - after deducting freight. 1 ' McVeytown, February 5, 1857.
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